Two eternal opposing theses - play is our life or life is our play - are the base of music, dance and verse which fit together in this film.

It's the tenth-year anniversary of the music, dance and poetry academy AkaDaMuS. New people on stage bring in a fresh burst of improvisation. Love is both reality and an act of creating art. As in the Pygmalion myth, we see the dance choreographer En En and his trainee Agnessa bringing together the two opposing principles of Apollo and Dyonisus, eternity and transience, matter and spirit, art and kitsch. The film references a range of poets and playwrights such as Moliere, Shaw, Debelyanov, Valery Petrov, Marko Ganchev, Konstantin Pavlov. Dances feature famous Bulgarian rhythmic gymnasts such as the champion Lilly Ignatova as the female lead.—Georgi Djulgerov <[email protected]>

This is not simply a musical, so do not be misled by the opening scenes. However, the members of ACAdemy of Dance, Music and Speech (the title of the film is an acronym) do perform a variety of classical and contemporary dances, including jazz ballet, rock, folk and break. They speak mainly in verse. A group of officials arrive to mark the anniversary of the Academy and to film a folklore composition staged by its artistic director N. N. This is a pretext for free, but not arbitrary, improvisation; for a flight of the spirit which does not detach itself from everyday life and of love and of love as an act both earthly and artistic. "AcaDaMuS' is based on Shaw's Pygmalion, in this instance the relationship between N.N. and Dinko Dionysiev, personifying the Apollonian and the Dionysian principles, which expresses the eternal and the transient, spirit and matter, art and kitsch. The clash between the two opposing theses - "the play is our life" and "life is a play" - is conveyed by a blend of heterogeneous elements of dance, music and verse which fit together like a jigsaw and express the innovative nature of this unusual film.—Georgi Djulgerov <[email protected]>